Critique required of our flash portfolio.
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- LetsDesign
Hello,
I have just finished updating our portfolio, which can be seen here:
<a href="Lets Design - Flash Programming">Lets Design - Flash Programming</a>
It showcases our flash applications, flash animation and flash games.
I am looking for a critique on the design and what you would think if you were a potential client looking for a flash programmer.
All help and feedback is greatly appreciated.Thanks,
David of Lets Design
- LetsDesign0
Here is the link http://www.letsdesign.co.uk
:-) it's been a long day.
- monospaced0
It's "Let's" not "Lets"
- It's Lets in this case. It's a name and domains don't allow the ' so I had to drop it. Major brands and stores also leave out there ' .LetsDesign
- McDonald's didn't change their name because of a URL limitation. It should be Let's.monospaced
- http://www.mcdonalds…Salarrue
- LetsDesign0
^^ Thanks, not seen that before.
- it's YOUR company, it's YOUR logo, you never saw that before?monospaced
- no, i posted that at the same time as you did, I meant the post above yours. It was just how it happened.LetsDesign
- monospaced0
Critique-wise I'm confused at first glance. I immediately look at the image of the projector and can't figure out why it's there. Also, putting the application icons for pieces of Adobe software might mean something to you, but to potential clients it's just clutter. It might also violate a handful of copyrights.
Have someone who's good at writing look over the copy. You have unnecessary commas all over the place, typos here and there, and the typography could use some design finesse.
The rounded boxes/outlines aren't helping much. Telling someone to "click any image to view" is unnecessary. How about using some of the said Flash expertise to add some interactive cues?
- Thanks, I will take your considerations on board.LetsDesign
- Me too. and I thought it was Wall-E for a second, or a one-eyed robot head.mg33
- mg330
It feels / looks playful, which may be your thing since there are games there. The overlay windows are impossible to close unless the browser is maximized; the X close button is positioned above the bottom of my lower-most browser toolbar, and I can't scroll to make it appear.
The bold black body text seems like a bit much.
- Yes, it is meant to be playful. you can close the windows by clicking outside of them, I will try to adjust the position of the close buttons as I think that you are right about the close button.
The body text is for SEO reasons and it has helped, I could do with trimming it though, again you are right. Thanks.LetsDesign
- Yes, it is meant to be playful. you can close the windows by clicking outside of them, I will try to adjust the position of the close buttons as I think that you are right about the close button.
- mg330
And, for what it's worth you can't "require" any of us to do anything. Ever.
- the word was used in the context of 'wish to have'.
LetsDesign - It's a statement, not an order.detritus
- the word was used in the context of 'wish to have'.
- jon_d0
I agree with the monospaced critique.
Add an apostrophe.
- :-) that would be very hard to do, after 6 years and it would not be web compatible.LetsDesign
- Changing the logo and writing it is 100% web compatible. The only thing is the URL name, and nobody cares about thatmonospaced
- jon_d0
heres my second critique..
flash games? dont you make mad money on ios?
- detritus0
You have no immediately-consumable proposition.
The graphic design overall is weak. Type particularly.
The voice overs are wet (sorry).
The projector graphic is nonsensical and misleading.
The preview windows are too small and too disjointed from the many experience.
Do you really want to subject potential clients to a captcha?'Spilt em up game'? c'mon!
- detritus0
In short — next time you do your website, turn off all your computers first, then start on paper.
- DRIFTMONKEY0
Looks like you make games or something. Hire a web designer.
- Aye - their being a programmer-centric group spills out of every pore.detritus
- fresnobob0
This one time I had a job making Flash things like this. The year was 1998. Things on the web have evolved a lot since then...
- dbloc0
background looks dated.
- LetsDesign0
Thanks to everyone for looking at our flash portfolio. Your great feedback will help me better the sites offering.
Thanks again,
http://www.letsdesign.co.uk- site's
you really should look into how apostrophes workmonospaced - Yore welcome.DRIFTMONKEY
- Thank'smonospaced
- S'weet a's.meffid
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- VikingKingEleven0
you're not getting out of here that easy.
- monospaced0
^
thi's
- VikingKingEleven0
You have some good designs and backgrounds in your animation but I dont see that carried out through your website
You have a widow on your home page, first paragraph.
I dont even know where to start.
Did you find some inspiration?
People say flash is outdated but damn boy you're doing the program no favors. Not even sure whats going on with the background.
Start over from a blank slate.
- Continuity0
• Apostrophe issues aside (which I thoroughly agree with), your typography need serious help. You've got what I assume to bed FF Dax (or something similar) in your navigation, a flavour of Lucida (on a Mac, at least) as body copy for the intro and as the descriptions under the boxes, and Arial bold at the titles in the boxes.
If you're going to use only sans-serifs in your designs, stick to multiple weights of just one typeface. There's no recognisable anything, as far as your typography goes. It's a mess.
• You really need to get a grasp on your copywriting. It's not "Split Em Up Game", it's "Split 'Em Up Game". Same as it's "Let's", not "Lets". Things like this make you look unprofessional. I know you probably spend more time writing code than writing in English, but you're trying to run a business here. Things like this make your business look sloppy.
• Your heavy-handed use of black, from the intro copy to the thick black stroke on the boxes around the projects to the one around the lightboxes make the whole business look horribly obnoxious.
• Speaking of which, why on Earth is the intro copy set in bold?
• The aliasing on the rounded corners of the boxes is ugly. This isn't 1997.